Production Scheduler

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary

Seeking a highly organized, proactive Production Scheduler to own the development and execution of our production schedule across a complex beverage manufacturing environment.

WBC operates as both a beverage brand owner and contract manufacturer, producing beer, non-alcoholic beverages, ready-to-drink beverages, and other beverage products for a diverse group of customers. The Production Scheduler plays a critical role in converting customer demand into an efficient, realistic, and executable production plan.

This position will take the operational hand-off from Business Development as new co-pack customers move toward commercialization and will work directly with both new and existing customers to understand production requirements, forecasts, timing, and priorities.

The Production Scheduler will coordinate closely with Procurement, Inventory, Warehouse, Brewing/Blending, Quality, Packaging, Maintenance, and Operations leadership to ensure that customer demand is translated into a production schedule that maximizes throughput, minimizes changeovers and downtime, and delivers against customer commitments.

This is not simply a schedule-maintenance position. The successful candidate will own the production schedule and drive the cross-functional communication and accountability necessary to execute it.

· 3+ years of experience in production scheduling, production planning, demand planning, supply planning, or a related manufacturing role.

· Experience in contract manufacturing/co-packing strongly preferred.

· Beverage, brewing, food, CPG, or other high-SKU manufacturing experience strongly preferred.

· Experience managing production schedules involving multiple customers, SKUs, packaging formats, and frequent changeovers.

· Experience working directly with customers regarding forecasts, orders, production timing, and supply requirements.

· Understanding of production capacity planning, inventory management, procurement, and material requirements planning.